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Re: [RFC stub-side break conditions 1/5] Documentation bits


> >To align with subject, I doubt it should be "stub-side" rather than
> >"target-side".
> >
> 
> I would prefer to say "target-side" everywhere actually - no one
> really knows what we mean by "stub", and if they try to understand
> it by looking at, say, our foo-stub.c files, they'll get really
> confused. :-)  "Target-side" has the right connotation of "outside
> GDB" but without committing to a specific implementation strategy -
> like conditional breakpoint tests in h/w debug registers, which
> would be the most awesome...

Indeed. Just to be sure: we should also change the name of the setting
from "stub" to "target".

-- 
Joel


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